All things eventually come to an end, especially good things. RTC Europe 2016 just ended this past Saturday. Some of us held on a little longer by staying in Porto over the weekend to enjoy a few more of the many things that the marvelous Portuguese city has to offer. Others are already back home, went to work and started sharing with friends and colleagues the highlights of their learning and experience at the conference.
Renaming Workset1 in Revit Projects
When you enable Worksharing and turn on worksets in a Revit project, Revit offers you two worksets by default – “Shared Levels and Grids” and “Workset1”. Anyone who has managed a Revit project with Worksharing should be familiar with the image seen below.
A Year (and a half) in Review
One of my New Year’s resolutions has been to get back to blogging. I thought I’d begin making good on that resolution by looking back at what’s kept me away from writing since my last post.
Revit 2014 Update 1 Is Out
If you let Revit’s Comm Center access Autodesk you’ll find that there is a Web Update release 1 for 2014 now. Heard already? As you were…
See you at AU this year?
Autodesk University 2012 is upon us! In a little less than a week, Las Vegas will bring together some of the best Revit experts out there today. And as always, it will be a great opportunity to meet and talk with some of them, attend sessions on everything and anything to do with Revit, and generally get a chance to meet new people in the BIM space. Some of those within the #UKBIMCrew will also be attending (always a fun bunch!), and I am happy to report that Chris, David and I will all be attending this year. We will arrive a bit earlier, from the 23rd of November, to get rid of the jetlag before the sessions we have lined up begin.
Symbols for Lighting Fixtures Showing in Plan
Back in 2010 I was asked to create a face-based lighting fixture that, when placed on a wall, would display a symbol in plan view. “No problem,” I thought, and happily set out to work on it. Little did I know that it couldn’t be done. Had I “known,” I might not have even tried. But as it turns out, it was possible after all.
RTC and the best Revit conference you could attend
I’m back from a two-week trip to the US where I attended and presented at RTC (Revit Technology Conference) in Stone Mountain, GA. It was the second North American RTC conference, with last year’s taking place near Los Angeles. Since this was my first RTC conference I didn’t know what to expect. I was pretty much convinced to attend after hearing how good it was from people who attended last year. Then at AU 2011, Steve Stafford prodded me to submit a talk about content creation and I was all set.
Big Picture Revit Families
We recently finished some retractable projection screen Revit families for Stewart Filmscreen, based in southern California. These are the kind of screens installed in the ceiling of a conference room or auditorium, where you might barely notice the screen is there until someone hits a button and it gracefully descends from a sleek minimalist enclosure. Since the screens are recessed products, the bulk of the work was in modeling all of the different canvas sizes and image areas available for each of the two models.